NOTE: This story was published during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the films being covered here wouldn’t exist. PopHorror fully supports the WGA and SAG-AFTRA and their efforts. Can you believe Joe Dante’s Piranha was released all the …
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Twilight Zone: The Movie is a science fiction/horror anthology film released in 1983. Based on the popular television series The Twilight Zone, created by Rod Serling in the 1950s, this 1980s version begins in a classic way. In a great prologue directed by John Landis, two men (played by Dan …
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As a kid, I remember seeing Corey Wolfe’s awesome VHS box art for director Jim Wynorski’s 1986 film, Chopping Mall, at the numerous visits my family paid to various mom and pop rental shops. Along with Maniac (1980), it’s the art I remember most from that timeframe as I was …
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Forty years ago this month, Piranha was gracing cinema screens, playing to audiences hungry for anything that would bring them even remotely close to the aquatic anxieties they got from Jaws three years earlier. So Piranha was, in its most elemental form, a cash-in film. That’s usually a derogatory term, but that’s …
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There are three rules you must follow when taking care of a Mogwai. First of all, keep him out of the light; he hates bright light, especially sunlight. It’ll kill him. Second, don’t give him any water, not even to drink. But the most important rule, the rule you can …
Read More »The basis for most horror films is the fight between good and evil. Sometimes the good guys prevail while other times they are not so lucky. In 1995, this concept took on a new meaning when our old pal the Crypt Keeper returned to bring us a full feature-length film. …
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